books about: concentration

books about: concentration

books:

Concentration

Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers

Filip Muller

Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 1999

Excellant
An outstanding account of one man's experiance. I liked the way the story was told with more of a narative perspective rather than a dramatic one. I think this allows you to feel your own emotions rather than the authors. I intend to visit soon and see it 1st hand. ...

Survival In Auschwitz

Primo Levi

Touchstone, 1996

primo levi
Primo Michele Levi (July 31, 1919 - April 11, 1987) was a Jewish-Italian chemist, Holocaust survivor and author of memoirs, short stories, poems, essays and novels. He is best known for his work on the Holocaust, and in particular his account of the year he spent as ...

The Hiding Place

Corrie, ten Boom, Elizabeth and John, Sherrill

Chosen, 2006

INCREDIBLY MOVING SAGA OF HEROIC DUTCH FAMILY DURING WW II...
This is an absolutely extraordinary book. Never have I read a book in which the spiritual beauty of the author so resonated throughout the story. The purity of heart that manifests itself in this inspiring saga of a heroic, Dutch family in Nazi occupied Holland during ...

Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission

Hampton Sides

Anchor, 2002

A Daring Raid
This is a terrifically exciting book about a rescue/raid in World War II that saved the lives of hundreds of American POWs in the Philippines. The characters are finely drawn, although I would have liked to learn more about Captain Robert Prince, the assault commander ...

The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness (Newly Expanded Paperback Edition)

Simon Wiesenthal

Schocken, 1998

The Sunflower, Pain and Forgiveness, Past and Present
Summoned to the bedside of a dying Nazi who had willingly participated in the systematic annihilation of Europe's Jews, concentration camp inmate Simon Wiesenthal found himself the captive, solitary witness to this 21-year-old SS man's confession of responsibility for ...

The Gulag Archipelago Volume 1: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (P.S.)

Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2007

The best book I have read in years! A real eye-opener.
For any who have any nostalgia for the Soviet Union, this book should put it to rest. This book is hard to categorize; it is more than one man's opinion, but less than an objective history. It is, as Solzhenitsyn puts it, "an experiment in literary investigation": a ...

This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen (Penguin Classics)

Tadeusz Borowski

Penguin Classics, 1992

A remembrance of things past
Imre Kertesz, a concentration camp survivor and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature often asks in his work: is there life after Auschwitz? Can one live with the ineffable guilt that accompanies survival against all odds? For Borowski the answer appears to be no. ...

Scientific Healing Affirmations: Theory and Practice of Concentration

Paramahansa Yogananda

Self-Realization Fellowship, 1958

Thank you Yoganandaji.
Little did I realise that after reading Autobiography of a yogi my life would have taken the turn that it did.Words cannot express my gratitude and thanks to Yoganandaji. Scientific Healing Affirmations is a great book to those who want to learn and feel the power of ...

The Drowned and the Saved

Primo Levi

Vintage, 1989

As important as a book gets
It is redundant to praise this book or describe its background, which has been done very well by other reviewers. This was Levi's final wrestling with the implications of what he called the Lager (he didn't use the term 'Holocaust'), not only as he experienced it, but ...

Boy In the Striped Pajamas (Movie Tie-in Edition)

John Boyne

David Fickling Books, 2008

Quite the adventure
in a sentence: meet a boy named Bruno and discover the unfamiliar and confusing adventure that awaits him. i'll be honest - the number one thing that interested me about this book was that the inside cover. they thought it would spoil the reading of the book to give ...

Into That Darkness: An Examination of Conscience

Gitta Sereny

Vintage, 1983

Thought-provoking and Thorough Investigation
I want to clear something up ~~ I don't "love" this book (that is what 5 stars stand for) but I do appreciate this book and it is definitely one of the best books I have read on the Holocaust. That is why I gave it a five star rating. It really is a thought-provoking ...

Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account

Arcade Publishing, 1993

Gripping Horrific Account of Life in the Auschwitz Death Camp
Dr. Miklos Nyiszli has written (1960) a graphic, gruesome, first-hand account of his time working as a doctor in the gas chambers of Auschwitz. Due to his previous medical training in medicine and pathology, Dr. Nyiszli was spared by the hideously inhuman Dr. Josef ...

I Never Saw Another Butterfly

Hana Volavkova

Schocken, 1994

Butterfly wings
Only three of the poets and authors whose work is represented in this volume survived the Nazi Holocaust. These works, however, are no more dead than the wings of butterflies mounted in a natural history museum. They fly: They give the children voices for all ...

Eugenics and Other Evils : An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State

G. K. Chesterton

Inkling Books, 2000

Eugenics
Eugenics is a GREAT EVIL. Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parent Hood, was associated with Adolph Hitler. She wanted birth control for only people of color, the poor and the catholics. When the Holocost came up front, they pulled back. But, the philosophy ...

Gulag: A History

Anne Applebaum

Anchor, 2004

The more I know about Russia, the happier I am to be American (if only by heart)
It's a work of labor as much as debt and seer investigative powers. It covers every aspect of the Gulag system from its pre-history to its closing-down. Russia's history is sad, unsentimental, and violent. One must thank God that Americans took a more noble and ...